Example sentences of "looked like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |
| 2 | It had looked like a melodrama — a little group in a candle-lit attic , holding up their arms with fists clenched and swearing to do or die . |
| 3 | Finally , Mrs Killea turned what had looked like a hopeless contest into a 51-49 victory . |
| 4 | Travelling by bus at night in winter could be a chilling experience , so my mother made me anklets from the fur cuffs of an old coat ; these stayed on by means of snap fasteners , and I must have looked like a poodle , but they provided considerable comfort . |
| 5 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 6 | He may have looked like a bank-clerk but he had the heart of a poet , whether he wrote in iambic pentameters or the plain but effective doggerel of the common man . |
| 7 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 8 | Looked like a cat when she stencilled them in . |
| 9 | Remarkably , they turn what had looked like a dead duck of an evening — a half-full club of uninterested Finns busy soaking up the DJ 's Toto records — into an event . |
| 10 | The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust looked like a grave . |
| 11 | More importantly , what might have initially looked like a lightweight novelty campaign group has grown and developed to become a full-time pressure group recognised as a leading authority on UK water pollution . |
| 12 | What had looked like a smooth expanse of grey-green wood was , close to , a maze of rough bark , roots and clumps of moss . |
| 13 | Beside it , the tower where the Shuttle had been launched looked like a pin alongside a very large black plate . |
| 14 | But Livermore insisted : ‘ We had no luck at all , particularly when Neil Ruddock had what looked like a perfectly good header disallowed after half-an-hour . |
| 15 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 16 | The new Britain may have looked like a waste land by 1945 , or at least a bomb site , especially in its inner cities . |
| 17 | That the archbishop of the prestigious see of Milan , graced by St Ambrose and St Charles Borromeo , should not be made a cardinal looked like a deliberate snub . |
| 18 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 19 | He had a bit of a beak for a nose and in profile , especially when he was frowning and thoughtful , looked like a young , dreaming hawk . |
| 20 | The clouds broke a little and the sun that had previously looked like a tarnished shilling in a bowl of porridge came out and lit the sweep of Wensleydale below the cairn . |
| 21 | She had looked like a spectre ; all the fight and vitality were gradually sucked from her . |
| 22 | Unlike Sting , Dylan and Bowie , Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself . |
| 23 | Elinor 's first astonished impression was that Matron Braddock looked like a female impersonator — a sergeant-major in drag : she could n't wait to describe her to Buzz . |
| 24 | The reason our house has looked like a junk yard since 1985 is because a three-seater the colour and shape of junk has been there . |
| 25 | Even so , he had looked like a ghost of his former self , all his ch'i , his vital energy , drained from him . |
| 26 | She was six feet tall and looked like a gorgeous transvestite , possibly the beneficiary of some dirty-minded sex-change operation , over in California there . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll grant you that , certainly , and she 's never looked like a model before . ’ |
| 28 | In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost . |
| 29 | I could n't blame her , I must have looked like a platoon of Japanese snipers behind all that foliage . |
| 30 | Looked like a well disciplined and well organised team . |